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Summary
Summary
Diverse leaders in the field of death, dying, and bereavement, address the issues surrounding the intersection of the personal and the professional in the unique context of end-of-life care.
End-of-life care (EOL) is a specialized area of work that crosses a number of academic and professional disciplines, including social work, counseling, hospice, physical medicine, geriatrics, nursing, counseling, psychology, and clerical work. Professionals who work in EOL have often had deeply moving personal experiences with trauma, death, and loss in their own lives, and almost inevitably bring their own histories, memories, notions, and assumptions to their work. These countertransference responses can be both complex and subtle.
Author Notes
Renee S. Katz, PhD, is a licensed psychologist and licensed clinical social worker in private practice in Washington. A board-certified diplomate in clinical social work, she has also chaired the ethics committee of the Association of Death Educators and Counselors (ADEC) and has been an active member in ADEC, the APA and NASW in addition to local organizations in Washington.
Therese A. Johnson, LMHC, NCC, has worked in the field of end-of-life care, grief counseling and traumatic loss for twenty years. She currently serves on the End-of-Life Consensus Coalition Committee of the Washington State Medical Association.
Table of Contents
| About the Editors | p. xiii |
| Contributors | p. xv |
| Series Editor's Foreword | p. xix |
| Foreword | p. xxi |
| Preface | p. xxv |
| Part I Introduction | |
| Chapter 1 When Our Personal Selves Influence Our Professional Work: An Introduction to Emotions and Countertransference in End-of-Life Care | p. 3 |
| Part II Special Issues in End-of-Life Care | |
| Chapter 2 Suffering and the Caring Professional | p. 13 |
| Chapter 3 Caregiving of the Soul: Spirituality at the End of Life | p. 27 |
| Chapter 4 The Seduction of Autonomy: Countertransference and Assisted Suicide | p. 39 |
| Chapter 5 Futility and Beneficence: Where Ethics and Countertransference Intersect in End-of-Life Care | p. 55 |
| Chapter 6 Client, Clinician, and Supervisor: The Dance of Parallel Process at the End of Life | p. 75 |
| Part III Specific Populations and Settings | |
| Chapter 7 The Influence of Culture and Ethnicity on End-of-Life Care | p. 91 |
| Chapter 8 Torture, Execution, and Abandonment: The Hospitalized Terminally Ill and Countertransference | p. 105 |
| Chapter 9 Surviving the Holocaust Only to Face Death Again: Working with Survivors at the End of Life | p. 121 |
| Chapter 10 The Horror and Helplessness of Violent Death | p. 139 |
| Chapter 11 Professionalism and Our Humanity: Working with Children at the End of Life | p. 157 |
| Part IV Personal-Professional Reflections | |
| Chapter 12 When the Face across the Room Reflects My Own: On Being a Psychotherapist and a Bereaved Parent | p. 171 |
| Chapter 13 Before and After My Fiancee's Death: Beliefs about Rational Suicide and Other End-of-Life Decisions | p. 189 |
| Chapter 14 Complex Bonds: A Personal-Professional Narrative | p. 203 |
| Part V Implications for Practice: Models to Address Countertransference in End-of-Life Care | |
| Chapter 15 The Respectful Death Model: Difficult Conversations at the End of Life | p. 221 |
| Chapter 16 Emotional Barriers to Discussing Advance Directives: Practical Training Solutions | p. 237 |
| Chapter 17 A Group Intervention to Process and Examine Countertransference near the End of Life | p. 255 |
| Part VI Conclusion | |
| Chapter 18 The Journey Inside: Examining Countertransference and Its Implications for Practice in End-of-Life Care | p. 269 |
| Index | p. 285 |
